Antidepressant use in pregnancy and risk of offspring ADHD?

Here we go again. Antidepressant use during pregnancy comes under the spotlight yet again ( see here ) as per the findings reported by Tako...

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Ariel pesticide use and neurodevelopmental diagnoses patterns

" When compared with surrounding areas, the zip codes exposed to yearly aerial pyrethroid spraying had a higher prevalence of ASD/DD ...

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Parental exposures and risk of offspring autism: some curious details

" Overall, our results were consistent with no positive association between parental asthmagen exposure and ASD  [autism spectrum disor...

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[Objective] exposure to flame retardants and social behaviours

Although a few details of the study reported by Shannon Lipscomb and colleagues [1] (open-access) interested me, I was particularly taken b...

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Why Does the Ear Hurt with Cold Air or Cold Wind Exposure?

Image courtesy of stockimages at FreeDigitalPhotos.net Not uncommonly, some people complain about ear pain (or otalgia ) that lasts about 15...

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Nothing good comes from exposure to lead

" In this population of Mexican children, current blood lead level among children with low exposure (< 5µg/dL) was positively associ...

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Dioxin exposure and autistic traits?

As promised in a previous post , today I'm turning my attention to the paper by Muneko Nishijo and colleagues  [1] and their conclusion ...

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